Report on the Multilingual Euphemism Detection Task

Patrick Lee, Anna Feldman


Abstract
This paper presents the Multilingual Euphemism Detection Shared Task for the Fourth Workshop on Figurative Language Processing (FigLang 2024) held in conjunction with NAACL 2024. Participants were invited to attempt the euphemism detection task on four different languages (American English, global Spanish, Yorùbá, and Mandarin Chinese): given input text containing a potentially euphemistic term (PET), determine if its use is euphemistic or not. We present the expanded datasets used for the shared task, summarize each team’s methods and findings, and analyze potential implications for future research.
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2024.figlang-1.15
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Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Figurative Language Processing (FigLang 2024)
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June
Year:
2024
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Mexico City, Mexico (Hybrid)
Editors:
Debanjan Ghosh, Smaranda Muresan, Anna Feldman, Tuhin Chakrabarty, Emmy Liu
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Fig-Lang | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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110–114
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https://aclanthology.org/2024.figlang-1.15
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2024.figlang-1.15
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Patrick Lee and Anna Feldman. 2024. Report on the Multilingual Euphemism Detection Task. In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Figurative Language Processing (FigLang 2024), pages 110–114, Mexico City, Mexico (Hybrid). Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Report on the Multilingual Euphemism Detection Task (Lee & Feldman, Fig-Lang-WS 2024)
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